tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872830042269797401.post3152615802246090158..comments2018-05-17T16:53:20.983+02:00Comments on Punk Rock and Coffee...: The Biggest Thing That Never Happened Gareth Smithnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872830042269797401.post-64174874949033968842018-03-19T14:43:16.580+01:002018-03-19T14:43:16.580+01:00@Matt Mildinhall Haha, no I can&#39;t say I rememb...@Matt Mildinhall Haha, no I can&#39;t say I remember, although it sounds entirely familiar :) Gareth Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18249422950419263931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872830042269797401.post-90370575712846049042018-02-03T23:25:10.121+01:002018-02-03T23:25:10.121+01:00I&#39;m hoping you remember borrowing a plectrum a...I&#39;m hoping you remember borrowing a plectrum at The Man on the Moon, Cambridge, from the support band lol. Pre-first debut album release I think \m/ Have followed the band ever since. Keep it real!Matt Mildinhallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11551747865345473876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872830042269797401.post-31056872450484829242018-01-31T14:54:16.240+01:002018-01-31T14:54:16.240+01:00In the early days, working with Ninth Circle, we e...In the early days, working with Ninth Circle, we encountered RSH - initially, pushing their broken van along the road to Hastings. We were to support. Being the friendly Scots hoard that we were, we stopped to help. I think they thought we were a van load of ...manky travellers! The offer was politely rejected. Later, NC took to the stage and played a fair set. However, it was destroyed by the tightest wall of rock &#39;n&#39; roll since Black Sabbath burst onto the scene with &quot;Paranoid&quot;. As NC&#39;s manager, I was ripped out of my delusional state of ...&quot;I manage the greatest band ever&quot; syndrome. It came down upon my eago like a furnace of molten steel. I now realised just how great you needed to sound, to get anywhere, on the first rung of the music machine. That machine minced and ate up bands by the score, every day. Here though, was a band that sounded like the entire might of the German Panzers, every fucking one ever built, charging at full throttle, and it was awesome to behold - yet humbling to acknowledge. These guys had the chemistry and it was undeniable. The guys of NC and RSH, became great friends and NC went home to regroup and come back out, amps blazing as Ridgeback. Unfortunately, it just wasn&#39;t enough. The saga of RSH...is now the stuff of underground band legend.John Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10468854472457406060noreply@blogger.com